A Time-Honored Position: The role of a mother has changed with each passing generation. Even in the last several decades, I have watched as modern woman took control over the sort of mother she wants to be: a working mother, a stay-at-home mother, a single mother, a mother by blood or by adoption, etc. The world may have an old-fashioned idea of what a mother must be, a checklist of sorts, but I have seen the role of "mother" filled in an endless variety of ways.
